Penny Capps

Penny Capps serves as a key procurement lead within the National CMOP Office of the Department of Veterans Affairs, overseeing the acquisition of critical pharmaceuticals, medical supplies, and operational support services essential to sustaining veteran healthcare nationwide. Responsible for ensuring the reliable domestic production and distribution of sovereign medical assets, she manages a diverse portfolio of contracts aligned with the agency’s mission to reduce foreign supply chain dependencies. Her acquisitions span technical, logistical, and workforce support services, with a strong emphasis on maintaining secure, resilient, and FDA-compliant manufacturing and distribution capabilities for essential medications and diagnostic agents. Capps maintains consistent working relationships with a core group of contractors, including ALL IN SOLUTIONS LLC, ANSIBLE GOVERNMENT SOLUTIONS LLC, and INNOVATION ASSOCIATES, INC., who provide specialized technical, administrative, and operational support. These partnerships reflect a preference for established vendors with proven experience in federal healthcare logistics, laboratory services, and mission-critical staffing solutions. While her contracting activity is largely open competition, she engages a network of 17 additional small vendors to ensure operational agility and niche capability access. Her socioeconomic contracting patterns show a strong emphasis on open competition, with 88.9% of awards issued under no set-aside, while 11.1% are reserved for service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses, reflecting a targeted but measured commitment to veteran-owned enterprise participation. She does not routinely utilize 8(a), HUBZone, or WOSB set-asides, aligning with the agency’s priority on mission-critical reliability over socioeconomic targeting. Capps’ procurement focus centers on NAICS codes 519130 (Other Information Services), 621511 (Medical Laboratories), and 561320 (Temporary Help Services), each representing 28.6% of her portfolio, with 611519 (Other Technical and Trade Schools) accounting for 14.3%. This reflects expertise in procuring data-driven health analytics, clinical laboratory testing infrastructure, workforce augmentation for pharmaceutical operations, and specialized training services supporting CMOP’s technical workforce.